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I'm not sure if I'm posting in the correct place as this is my first time, so I apologize in advance if not. As my the title states I currently have a samsung epic 4g that will not boot past the samsung screen. The phone is not rooted and was running stock software. This phone also will not load a recovery menu as it will not boot past the samsung screen (and yes I'm aware of the redundancy). I have tried flashing older stock files using odin and I get a successful read with no errors, however when the phone resets post flash it will still not boot past the samsung screen.......PLEASE HELP I am at my wits end and open to suggestions. Thanks
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Thephonewhisperer85 said:
I'm not sure if I'm posting in the correct place as this is my first time, so I apologize in advance if not. As my the title states I currently have a samsung epic 4g that will not boot past the samsung screen. The phone is not rooted and was running stock software. This phone also will not load a recovery menu as it will not boot past the samsung screen (and yes I'm aware of the redundancy). I have tried flashing older stock files using odin and I get a successful read with no errors, however when the phone resets post flash it will still not boot past the samsung screen.......PLEASE HELP I am at my wits end and open to suggestions. Thanks
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+1 here too! Girlfriends phone has the exact same problem since last night. It also is not showing that it is charging...??
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Jbb3393 said:
+1 here too! Girlfriends phone has the exact same problem since last night. It also is not showing that it is charging...??
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Best I can say to you both is get a stronger cable if your not already using one and if you do have a cable other than the oem one then try leaving the battery out of the phone and hold the power button for about a minute to let the capacitors discharge then let it sit with the battery still out for about an hour :/ if you don't mind me asking, what happened to the phone before the issue started?
Try to Odin with the battery out.
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kennyglass123 said:
Try to Odin with the battery out.
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And with sd card out too
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Its possible to odin without the battery in? How does it populate the com and do you put it in download mode first then pull battery or just plug it and let it fly?
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Thanks for the replies. I am trying "the duce's" advice first, no luck yet. She had went to take a picture of the "beautiful sky" last night in the hot tub and dropped it. I immediately took the battery out and when we got to our apartment took the hair dryer (on medium heat of course) to it. I then put the battery in and turned it on and it worked! Until she decided it needed a restart and it hasn't came on since...
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Huge thanks for the replies here as well and to address duces question, in my case nothing outside of normal use on the phone. I powered it off and when I powered it back on I was stuck on samsung
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Ok so I just tried to flash with odin with battery out I did put it in dowload mode after plugging it up....I removed the sd card as well. Now it boots to the samsung screen but the difference is that now the red led stays lit and the capacitive keys on the bottom row do as well. Any suggestions?
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I am stuck while odin right now with battery in... Suppose I will pull battery and try without next...
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Jbb3393 said:
Thanks for the replies. I am trying "the duce's" advice first, no luck yet. She had went to take a picture of the "beautiful sky" last night in the hot tub and dropped it. I immediately took the battery out and when we got to our apartment took the hair dryer (on medium heat of course) to it. I then put the battery in and turned it on and it worked! Until she decided it needed a restart and it hasn't came on since...
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In that case, I would make sure every last bit of moisture is out of the casing by leaving it covered by rice over night.... it might be short circuiting :/
Thephonewhisperer85 said:
Huge thanks for the replies here as well and to address duces question, in my case nothing outside of normal use on the phone. I powered it off and when I powered it back on I was stuck on samsung
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That's just odd :/ I honestly haven't a clue as to what may be going wrong.... at least you made some progress with the capacitive buttons lighting up and your notification led is lighting, usually that's a sign it'll boot
Get this....never got it to boot using odin or by completely discharging the capacitors but on a hunch changed out the lcd this morning and boots right up. What the heck, does anyone know why this worked? Haha very confused now even though the issue is resolved.
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Thephonewhisperer85 said:
Get this....never got it to boot using odin or by completely discharging the capacitors but on a hunch changed out the lcd this morning and boots right up. What the heck, does anyone know why this worked? Haha very confused now even though the issue is resolved.
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I guess you are the phone whisperer lol
Thephonewhisperer85 said:
Get this....never got it to boot using odin or by completely discharging the capacitors but on a hunch changed out the lcd this morning and boots right up. What the heck, does anyone know why this worked? Haha very confused now even though the issue is resolved.
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Must have been some kind of failure mode for hardware check then. I had the same thing with my airbag switch in my truck. Airbag light came on because the stupid bulb in the switch was blown. Almost cost me $35 for a switch instead of $1.50 at Radio Shack.
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Must have been some kind of failure mode for hardware check then. I had the same thing with my airbag switch in my truck. Airbag light came on because the stupid bulb in the switch was blown. Almost cost me $35 for a switch instead of $1.50 at Radio Shack.
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Has anyone been able to boot into safe mode(hold power button and capacitive menu button) after the phone not booting normally?
im rooted and finished flashing one of the roms, now it seems like its stuck on boot screen.... do i just leave it on? or do the whole flashing process over again?
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im rooted and finished flashing one of the roms, now it seems like its stuck on boot screen.... do i just leave it on? or do the whole flashing process over again?
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You can try a reflash, restore your previous nand backup and try again, or Odin in a prerooted ROM and start from there. But if it goes more than a minute on SAMSUNG you are done. After flashing the S will take a few minutes (or whatever boot screen the ROM has) while it rewrites Dalvik cache.
My epic is doing the same thing. It was stuck in recovery menu when I pulled it out of my pocket. Rebooted and stuck on sanding screen.
I figured out what I did. I installed wrong kernal... noob for me lol
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So basically what's going on is that once or twice a day my phone freezes (causing me to have to do a battery pull) or randomly reboots. I have tried three different roms (one being stock rooted) and the problem still occurs. I've tried different kernels, different modems, and changed everything I thought might help, including disabling SetCPU. I'm completely baffled, and I'm to the point that I think my beloved E4GT might be defective. So any help or suggestions would be great. TIA.
BTW my current setup is...
Blazer ROM 3.7
EL29 modem
Gunslinger kernel
TW4 launcher (not sure if that matters)
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mbrian27 said:
So basically what's going on is that once or twice a day my phone freezes (causing me to have to do a battery pull) or randomly reboots. I have tried three different roms (one being stock rooted) and the problem still occurs. I've tried different kernels, different modems, and changed everything I thought might help, including disabling SetCPU. I'm completely baffled, and I'm to the point that I think my beloved E4GT might be defective. So any help or suggestions would be great. TIA.
BTW my current setup is...
Blazer ROM 3.7
EL29 modem
Gunslinger kernel
TW4 launcher (not sure if that matters)
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Is your phone possibly overheating? Cause it definitely sounds like a hardware related issue.
That's kinda what I was thinking... When it restarts on its own the notification LED turns pink and I swear I read somewhere that it means the phone has overheated.
Funny thing is, most of the time after it reboots I can use my phone for hours with moderate-heavy use and it won't do it again... It's so random
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mbrian27 said:
That's kinda what I was thinking... When it restarts on its own the notification LED turns pink and I swear I read somewhere that it means the phone has overheated.
Funny thing is, most of the time after it reboots I can use my phone for hours with moderate-heavy use and it won't do it again... It's so random
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I would just take it back to stock, then to Sprint for a swap. Do you have insurance on your device? If not, you'll still be under the 1 year manufacturer warranty, and it will only cost $35 to get another device.
Yeah I have insurance... Just got off the phone with tech support and I'm going to the store later.
I know the manager at the store I'm going to so maybe I'll try to get him to let me swap it for a white E4GT lol
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mbrian27 said:
Yeah I have insurance... Just got off the phone with tech support and I'm going to the store later.
I know the manager at the store I'm going to so maybe I'll try to get him to let me swap it for a white E4GT lol
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Nice... I think I might break mine on purpose then swap for the white one too!
Title says it all lol
mine says
126:50:40
just wondering, this is on a stock rom btw, was waiting for ICS OTA and got bored
123:35 as of right now.. I'm sure I've had it at least double that before. I rarely restart my phone unless it dies or locks up, which is very very rare. I'm on Juggernaut
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Well mine and my wifes randomly shuts off atleast 3 times a week which only a battery pull brings it back on so not very long.
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mine says 999:59:59...true story
Hey Everyone,
I've had this weird bug on my Samsung Epic 4g Touch.
What happens is when im using my phone the screen will suddenly start to flicker and then id lose my service and then my phone would just shut down. After it shuts down if I try to reboot it, it will reboot and then it will shut down again almost immediately after using it. This bug isnt action specific and occurs at really strange times, I can get it to stop by waiting about 20 minutes or plugging it into a charger.H owever this ONLY HAPPENS WHEN IM RUNNING ON BATTERY it will not happen when im plugged into a charger. I know this isnt ROM specific because it has happened on multiple roms :/. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!
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Samsung Epic 4g Touch
Current Rom: AOKP Milestone 6 no overclock
I'd replace the battery and/or check the phone without sd card.
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rovar said:
I'd replace the battery and/or check the phone without sd card.
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Alright Ill try that THANKS!
Tried formatting card and usb storage didn't work still got that bug. I'll replace the battery and try it but say that doesn't work, if I restore stock EL26 and take it to Sprint will they give me a new one?
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l3gacy28 said:
Tried formatting card and usb storage didn't work still got that bug. I'll replace the battery and try it but say that doesn't work, if I restore stock EL26 and take it to Sprint will they give me a new one?
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Defective phone if it happens on multiple ROMs....take it back if the battery change doesn't work. You may have a refurbished phone that isn't up to par.
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But I know it isn't refurbished....I got it the day it came out..what I might just do is wait for another nice android to come out and then trade this one in.
If I'm going to return this one, do I have to restore stock firmware?
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Do you use battery monitor widget or use a battery besides the stock battery? I had this problem. I use three batteries all with different mah and I would use battery monitor widget to calibrate them. Once I have all my profiles set up by entering each batteries supposedly mah I would have this same problem. I was finally able to fix it a few days ago (after a few months of torture) by using the estimated value on the calibration screen in battery monitor widget. For some reason the app would estimate my batteries at a higher level or lower level than the battery claims. Hope that helps in any way..
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THIS HAS BEEN VERIFIED BY ME, AND JOKERSAX HAS TOLD ME ABOUT TWO OTHER DEVS WHO HAVE HAD SIMILAR RESULTS
This is a public service announcement saying that if you leave recovery (I left TWRP on overnight while restoring a nandroid) on too long, under certain circumstances not yet completely determined may lead your device to a hard brick. This has happened to 3 people so far, and want to avoid anymore issues with this.
For more details on what happened I was flashing a V5 test build of my rom im working on adding aroma too where I got another syntax error to fix. It was about 11:30 at night, so I just started restoring from a nandroid, threw the phone upside down, and knocked out. When I woke up the next morning I checked the device and it was off in recharge mode- nothing too big. I then tried to boot and it ended up flashing the notification light and softkeys repeatedly, and did nothing else. I was able to get it into download mode, but LGNPST kept timing out. Then after trying several times with it timing out it wouldnt get into download mode. I then tried to just get anything to light up, and left it on the charger for several hours, and then gave up that my device was hard bricked. No data remained. I had to go to best buy and wait about an hour and a half for them to get me a new device. I hope everyone can avoid this happening to their device. It is a slow, but sure death reported by a few people.
And to think I left my phone in recovery. for about 2 hours =x scared to even boot to recovery now
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Veritass said:
And to think I left my phone in recovery. for about 2 hours =x scared to even boot to recovery now
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If youre phone boots it will be fine. I left it for about 8 hours or so.
You should make this a sticky
Ya i was taking my time with the aroma installer and noticed my phone heat up real quick! Had to turn my phone off after the rom booted. Close call!
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This must be what happened to my first LGOG, I feel asleep running a backup. When I woke up it wouldn't boot. Thank goodness for Geek Squad coverage.
Does anyone know if this problem exists with clockwork too? I already fried a phone just making a simple backup using TWRP.
I'm using CWM now and made a backup and flashed a rom and my phone survived.
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toprock23 said:
Ya i was taking my time with the aroma installer and noticed my phone heat up real quick! Had to turn my phone off after the rom booted. Close call!
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Every time I use aroma my phone gets scorching hot. If I recall my GS3 did the same thing with aroma.
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Every time I use aroma my phone gets scorching hot. If I recall my GS3 did the same thing with aroma.
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Any time I boot to recovery my phone heats up =p
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My phone also gets really got while in recovery mine also overheated exactly like the OP but mine came back to life I left it alone for a few hours then put it on the charger and finally got into download mode then recovery and restore. We definitely need to do something like timeout where after 10 minute the phone shuts off or something. Not sure it is possible but I like ranting lol
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We need to fix recovery
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Thanks for the info! I used to leave backups running overnight all the time with my previous devices. Good thing I haven't with this one.
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Only thing that could heat up the phone like that is the cpu core running at max.or spiking to max very very rapidly. Basically the soc with all the chipsests are not going into a sleep mode. I can see why all the data was gone and or damaged. I've seen something like this with other electronics.
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I have not left recovery on long enough to experience noticeable overheating myself. I wish I knew how to fix the recovery myself though. Also as for making this a sticky (I read half the posts through email, and might have got this thread mixed up) mods are kinda inactive, so it will be hard for us to do.
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I have not left recovery on long enough to experience noticeable overheating myself. I wish I knew how to fix the recovery myself though. Also as for making this a sticky (I read half the posts through email, and might have got this thread mixed up) mods are kinda inactive, so it will be hard for us to do.
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If I am in recovery for 5 seconds, my device heats up really bad. But it is the only time it heats up.
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If I am in recovery for 5 seconds, my device heats up really bad. But it is the only time it heats up.
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I have heat up while playing games or streaming music, or leaving it at the lockscreen too long. Maybe undervolting it can fix it? IDR if joker's test kernel added it or not.
Happened to me to. But mine was adb push file to sdcard and lost power due to usb low charge and recovery turning phone into a glass top stove
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Mine overheats after playing Beach Buggy Blitz for five minutes, in recovery. Too often really :/
These are reasons I always finish what I'm working on before I sleep! It drives my girlfriend nuts ha ha. But yes, the phone does get hot rapidly in recovery hotter than I have ever gotten it running any game or app
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well TWRP 4.2 is out now, maybe itll fix our little problem.